7 Cave Crescent, Wakefield WF2 8HB

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 80 m² · Rented (Social) · Boiler and radiators, wood logs

Upgrade Plan

EC for £10,948 · £5,474 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£850.3 yrs+5.6 pts
Low energy lighting£25£45.7 yrs+0.3 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£10010.0 yrs+6.6 pts · reaches D
Heating controls£350 – £450£3611.0 yrs+2.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£9248.8 yrs+6.1 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£7750+ yrs+5.1 pts · reaches C

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£1,269
per year at grade E
£874
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £395 a year — a 3.6% annual return on £10,948.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

Cave Crescent: 1 sales since 1995 · £117,500 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
The Mount Junior Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
Wakefield Snapethorpe Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Trinity Academy CathedralSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.34 · above average (2023/24)
Horbury AcademySecondary1.2 miProgress 8 +0.32 · above average (2023/24)
St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary AcademySecondary1.9 miProgress 8 +0.29 · above average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

15.5
crimes a month
170
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 58% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01011901, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Cave Crescent

How this home sits against its street.

22
graded homes
64.2
average score
D
most common grade
-17.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.